On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Paul Gear wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> A quick question: are there *any* Debian derivatives that support RAID 1
> / and /boot?
normally ... raid1 supports / and /boot raid off the shelf
( built in the default kernel.org kernel )
- it all assumes that /boot is in / and "/" is less than 1024
cylinders ( 520MB or so for "/" )
- if not, you will need a custom initrd ... that supports raid
and /boot and / can be anywhere on the disks crossing the 1024
cylinder boundries and however big you want
in my own itty bitty world of machines ..
- creating /boot is a bad idea ..
- creating / bigger than 128MB or 256MB is a bad idea ...
- bad idea because i dont want to fiddle with it once
it's deployed and if it breaks i want to fix in minimal
time and not have to wait and wait and wait and wait
you can always build a custom initrd instead and all the drives
would be happy .. ( manually do what the fancy rh installer is doing that
deb installer is not - to assemble the raid array before installing or
booting )
c ya
alvin
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